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Armed men in Iraq have shot dead 16 members of the same Shia family before blowing up their two neighbouring homes south of the capital Baghdad, police and medics said.<p>The overnight attack took place in the town of Latifiya, 40km south of Baghdad, officials said on Wednesday.<br>The dead included six …

Barack Obama, the US president, has said the international community cannot remain silent in the face of the "barbarism" of the Syrian regime's alleged use of chemical weapons.<p>Obama told a news conference on Wednesday that "failing to respond to this attack would only increase the risk of more …

Allegations that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons last month are a "pretext" by the West to attack the country, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.<p>Iran is Syria's main regional ally and has warned Western powers against intervening in the country's civil war, as the United …

World leaders from G20 are meeting in St Petersburg, Russia, amid sharp differences over possible US military action against Syria, in response to what the US administration calls a deadly chemical weapons attack.<p>Thursday's summit comes hours after a US Senate panel voted to give President Barack …

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Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women.<p>The findings, detailed today (Aug. 1) in the journal Science, come from the most complete analysis of the male …

Canada's largest wireless company, Rogers Communications Inc., is in talks on two deals designed to sidestep Ottawa's restrictions on industry mergers and discourage U.S. giant Verizon Communications Inc. from entering the domestic market.<p>Rogers Communications Inc. is backing a Toronto-based …

US soldier Bradley Manning has been convicted of espionage for leaking thousands of classified documents in the biggest leak of secret government files in US history.<p>Some 700,000 documents were passed to the anti-secrecy site Wikileaks, including US diplomatic cables and classified battlefield …

The Egyptian interior ministry has urged protesters to leave camps in Cairo set up by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, one day after the army-backed interim government ordered it to take action against them.<p>In a statement read on state TV on Thursday, the interior ministry offered "a …

Both the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s liberal opposition are roundly criticising the United States. That is hard on Ambassador Anne Patterson, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who just visited Cairo. But it is also evidence that the US is trying to …

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi continued to rally in Cairo, despite calls by the interim governments for protesters to leave two camps set up in the capital.<p>Witnesses on Thursday told Al Jazeera that military helicopters were hovering at low altitude over the sit-in at …

<b>A diabetes pill has anti-ageing effects and extends the life of male mice, research suggests.</b><p>Scientists believe the drug, metformin, may mimic the effects of extreme calorie restriction.<p>This regime, which is based on eating a very low calorie diet, is thought to promote healthy ageing.<p>The human …